What is the interpretation of rail -roading phenomena?

Is this a correct interpretation of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness?

  • Please, if you are familiar with this book, let me know if I got it right (in terms of nihilism and feeling of absurdity, as being for humans is a nothingness) "Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre argues in Being and Nothingness that this undefined nature of life is what defines man. Being, to Sartre, is just is; it appears interpreted in every conscious act, and therefore, is a phenomenon. Sartre argues that there are two ways of being: being-for-itself, which is how humans are in a subjective consciousness, and being-in-itself, which is objective being. Once the consciousness of the the for-itself existence makes its being a question, the fissure between the being-in-itself and being-for-itself is revealed. Thereby, the conscious being recognizes it is not in an objective existence, or a being-in-itself. Through this awareness of its being, the for-itself’s subjective existence realizes that it is a nothingness, a blank slate upon which it can create its being. It seems that Sartre’s argument premises around Camus’. As such, since the being-for-itself realizes it cannot exist in the world objectively (viewing the world as it is), it can be argued that this absurdity shows that our subjective views of the world are essentially false, as there is this gap between us and being-in-itself. We perceive phenomena, rather than viewing things as they are, and, accordingly, the world represents itself to us phenomenologically. By questioning the world, we are pretending to know more than we already do (which is a skewed phenomenological outlook on the world)."

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    I think you will get good marks .now I do not like Sartre . My feeling is we are trying to have it both ways. At a lecture last night on "happiness" we were told that our happiness level is genetic indeed it seems genetic is a catch cry for every thing so if "it" is there at birth then there is really no blank slate even so there is also the "mimes"which if I have it right is a sort of knowledge which goes around infecting our thinking. If "the Outsider" is an example of existential living and you can throw in Dostoevsky Crime and Punisment too I truly believe existenialism is more than half way to nihilism Good Luck

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